Prentice Cooper

Prentice Cooper (28 September 1895-18 May 1969) was Governor of Tennessee (D) from 16 January 1939 to 16 January 1945, succeeding Gordon Browning and preceding Jim Nance McCord.

Biography
Prentice Cooper was born in Bedford County, Tennessee in 1895, and he served in the US Army field artillery during World War I. He became a lawyer in 1922, and he served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1922 to 1924, served as the district attorney of the state's eighth judicial district in 1925, served as city attorney for Shelbyville, and served in the State Senate from 1936 to 1939. In 1939, he was elected Governor, and he oversaw Tennessee's contributions to the American war effort during World War II, which occurred for almost the entirety of his tenure. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman appointed him ambassador to Peru, and he served until 1948. He died in Rochester, Minnesota in 1969.